Michael Dell says scale is necessary in a fast-changing IT world, while Meg Whitman says being smaller and more nimble will win out
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Amazon CTO: We Were A Technology Company Long Before AWS
Boxworks 2016: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says Amazon has always been a technology company, just one that happens to do retail really well
Cross Channel: Skills Gap, Zyxel Moves Into Services And Printer Sales
All the latest news from the IT channel in one handy round-up
Box Adds UI APIs And New Developer Console To App Creation Platform
Boxworks 2016: Box targets large enterprises with its developer platform by making it easier to create custom applications
HPE Slices ‘Non-Core’ Software Assets And Offloads To Micro Focus For £6.6 Billion
HPE enters a second wave of efficiency measures, honing focus on the cloud
Box Overhauls Platform With Better Sync, File Streaming And Offline Box Notes
Boxworks 2016: 'All new Box' promises to be faster, more open and easier to use thanks to major refresh
Box And IBM Simplify Cloud Workflows With Box Relay
Boxworks 2016: Box and IBM continue partnership and promise Box Relay will reduce dependency on IT without sacrificing securirty
Apple, Google And Amazon Support Microsoft With US Government Gag Order Fight
Tech and media compaines throw Microsoft their support of a gagging lawsuit fight with the US government
Tech Quiz Of The Week: Amazon Web Services
Find out how much you know about AWS in our weekly tech quiz
Dell Pushes Converged Infrastructure With New Systems
In bid to unify IT infrastructure, Dell offers new systems and solutions using service-defined infrastructure
Oracle: Cloud Success Relies On Cultural Shift
As some organisations continue to struggle with cloud, Oracle changes the way it sells the stuff
Report: Google Could Win PayPal Cloud Business
Sources claim Google is fending off AWS and Azure to sign up PayPal as cloud customer
Google Agrees To Privacy Shield Framwork
Google is latest giant to adhere to new rules about data transfer between Europe and the US
Office 365 Targets Inclusion With Accessibility Update
Microsoft engineers seeks to broaden appeal of Office 365 to people with disabilities in new updates
VMware Unveils Cloud Foundation, Launches With IBM
VMware packages up offerings into Cloud Foundation, an SDDC highway for managing clouds from VMware or others
IT Life: Anand Krishnan, Canonical Cloud
Canonical's head of cloud Anand Krishnan talks about his career, his favourite apps and the changing landscape of IT
Run Apps In Docker If You Want Application Security
Often, new technologies raise security concerns. However, two reports claim it's safer to run applications inside containers than outside of them.
Rackspace Goes Private In £3.25bn Takeover
So the rumours were true. Cloud hosting firm Rackspace is taken over by private equity firm Apollo Global Management
Cross Channel: IBM Seeks EMC Customers And G-Cloud Concerns For SMBs
The latest news from the world of the IT channel. This week sees IBM making a flash storage push, a G-Cloud supplier express concerns and NHS contract win
Report: Dropbox Mulls Possible Public Listing
Cloud storage provider calls in advisers to discuss possible IPO, despite not making a profit
Security Teams Not Keeping Up With Exponential Cloud Server Growth
Black Hat survey finds enterprises are increasing their attackable surface area by 100 times with a move to cloud infrastructure environments
Nutanix Plugs Enterprise Cloud Into Cisco Servers
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud software now runs on Cisco UCS C-Series servers
Cisco Confirms Major Jobs Cull, Despite Profit Growth
Bad news for tech workers as networking giant confirms restructuring reports, despite £8.1 billion profit
IBM And Workday Shake Hands On Seven-Year Cloud Deal
Workday will use IBM cloud services for software testing and development, according to reports
Rackspace Hits One Billion OpenStack Server Hours
Also extends Managed Security support to Microsoft Azure
AWS Pushes ‘Serverless’ App Development At Its New York Summit
ANALYSIS: Amazon Web Services wants enterprises to get ready to migrate to a world of micro services running in a "serverless" cloud universe
Microsoft Researchers ‘Solve’ Secure Cloud Data Exchange
Cloud breakthrough? Microsoft plots way to enable secure data exchange in the cloud for users
At Six Years Old, OpenStack Questions Its Long-Term Viability
ANALYSIS: The future needs ideas like OpenStack, claims founder Jonathan Bryce
Mirantis Now Supports Enterprise Linux With SUSE Partnership
OpenStacker Mirantis is now able to offer up support for SUSE’s enterprise Linux following a partnership that also brings support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS
What Is Azure Stack And What Does It Mean For Your Business?
Azure Stack has been delayed until mid-2017, but will you want to use it and how can you prepare for it?